Editorial March 27, 1978 Issue

Quietness and assurance ...

Naomi Price

... two qualities to be cherished most dearly! They belong to all the children of God—to every one of us in our real being. They are attributes of Soul, and God's spiritual idea, man, invariably reflects them; so we can never lose them.

We feel the strength of quietness and assurance within us whenever our consciousness is attuned to God, immortal Truth —when we acknowledge the rule of divine law in the one true universe and recognize that this true, spiritual universe is where we invariably dwell. So potent is true consciousness that a mere glimpse of the law and order of God's universe is enough to still the worst tumult of mortal thought, to dissolve fears, and establish a healthy state in the human mind that has been disturbed and sick. "The work of righteousness shall be peace," promised the prophet Isaiah. "And the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever."^{Isa. 32:17;}

Today, when mental illness is assuming giant proportions in many countries, this Bible statement is highly important. According to the recent report of the President's Commission on Mental Health, there may be more than thirty million people in the United States who are mentally disturbed and in need of special care. Yet this unhappy picture could substantially change if more attention were given to the getting of spiritual understanding and establishing right consciousness as the Bible recommends, for then quietness and assurance would replace disturbed thought, and peace and joy would increasingly become unprecarious on earth as they are in the realm of Spirit.

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